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Another Yoruba group backs secession, demands Oduduwa Republic

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Another Yoruba group backs secession, demands Oduduwa Republic

Another Yoruba group, Yoruba Liberation Command, has said it is no longer interested in one Nigeria and has demanded for Oduduwa Republic.

The group said at the weekend that it was not in support of the restructuring demand and insisted that it was high time there was an end to the over 100 years of bitter acrimony, ethnic rivalry, savage killings, herdsmen killings, among other challenges it noted the country had continued to face since its existence.

Recall that a similar demand was also made earlier in June of this year, by a Pan Yoruba group, O’odua Nationalist Coalition, (ONAC).

They had also called on Yoruba people to prepare for their own sovereign nation, “Oodua Republic”, following the lingering agitation for the breakup of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Aligning itself with ONAC and IPOB, as well as other South East groups agitating for Biafra, YOLICOM, in a release at a world press conference held at International Press Centre, (IPC) Ogba, Lagos, said Nigeria had failed and needed nothing but a breakup.

The group’s statement read in part as follows:

“You will recall that since 1914, when Nigeria was amalgamated at gun point, the country has been thrown into one turmoil or the other. For over a century, Nigeria has failed to meet the international benchmark of socio political and economic development.

“The only references to Nigeria’s grandeur were the striking achievements of the then three regions of South West, South East and the North. Since the collapse of federalism and the three tiers founded to a large extent on the civilisations and values of the ethnic configuration in the country, Nigeria was remained in the tunnel of misery, pangs and pains, including the fact that the country was plunged into an avoidable civil war that took now fewer than I million lives,”

“Since the end of the war, millions of Nigerians as individuals and collectively as a society, have continued to wage and fight wars of survival characterised by extreme hunger and lack of the essentials of life like housing, good water, shelter, health and drinkable water.

“It has been most traumatic for the Yoruba Nation, which, between 1953 and 1966, raised one of the most advanced political economies in Africa and in the entire black world, parring on the same level with many countries in Europe by the standard of the time.

“In the light of the foregoing, and in response to the occurrences in Nigeria of the past few months, including but not limited to the releases, utterances and comments certain groups representing the Igbo nation in Nigeria, IPOB (The Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB) among others to the effect that they desire to leave Nigeria and cease to be called Nigerians; and certain groups representing the (AREWA) people of Northern Nigeria, to the effect that the Igbo people should vacate the territory of Northern Nigeria before October 1st, 2017.

“That we support the aspirations of the Igbo Nation irrespective of the unfortunate hate speeches, infantile savage utterances of a certain Nnamdi Kanu, who appears to have singled out Yoruba Nation for ridicule and revulsion.

“We take solace in the fact that we work with many large-hearted, better-exposed, principled and consciousness Igbo leaders who have a richer sense of history and understands better the complex nature of nation building and who also realize that importance of alliances, networking in statesmanship and international friendship and solidarity. We look forward to a viable and mutual relationship to the future Igbo nation, based on cordial respect within the framework of international best practices”.

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YOLICOM further stated, “That what we want as a people is Oduduwa Republic. We have no apology for this. That the Yoruba people wish to see an end to the over 100 years of bitter acrimony, ethnic rivalry, savage killings, blackmail of the Yoruba nation by some recalcitrant ethnic groups, herdsmen killings, forcing millions of our people to stop going to farms and the excruciating burden of coming from a country with the stigma of terrorism.

“That our people have endured for a century the misery of Nigeria, her destruction of our values and the inestimable cultural genocide inflicted on our heritage by the rogue Nigerian country. It is time for the Yoruba Nation to exit from this axis of evil.

“That we totally reject the idea of restructuring as proposed by the Nigerian state and the political elite. It is an attempt to restructure Nigeria on their own terms and not on the terms of the people. Nigeria will never be genuinely restructured by the present crop of political leaders who are themselves beneficiaries of the same skewed system.

“That even if the country will be restructured, it will still pass through the National Assembly which was created during the era of military rule of the Fulani to ensure an upper-hand for the Fulani North.”

Many analysts have continued to claim that Nigeria had never been as divided as it currently is. The continued emergence of these secession-backing ethnic groups appears to buttress their point.

Ebere Ndukwu …

 

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  1. Abeni Adebisi

    July 30, 2017 at 11:17 am

    These people are only insanely looking for attention! No yoruba will follow their lead, useless people

  2. Anita Kingsley

    July 30, 2017 at 11:27 am

    Things will eventually get easier when all regions declare they are no more interested in Nigeria. I’m sure everyone will later be grateful to Biafra agitators for how they’ve made then understand what they truly want isn’t Nigeria

  3. JOHNSON PETER

    July 30, 2017 at 11:48 am

    Everyone can now reason and toeing our line as Biafra country. Nigeria is not worth living as one, well, we bifarans are serious with our secession and nothing stop us

  4. Animashaun Ayodeji

    July 30, 2017 at 12:09 pm

    The federal governement should do something to these groups causing confusion in the society. Each region has more than ten groups saying different things. If they all cannot collaborate and agree on one term, none of them will achieve anything.

  5. yanju omotodun

    July 30, 2017 at 12:24 pm

    Am sure very soon, ebira will want ebira state, Tiv, their Tiv state, soon , Igala will demand their own state too, Efik state, Ibibilo state, even ijebu state as everyone will cleave to his tribes and dialects. This is not what we need but unity and understanding

    • Balarabe musa

      July 30, 2017 at 12:54 pm

      It’s that useless incorrigible kanu that caused all these nonsense. Baba Buhari will soon come back to rearrest the bandit if Osinbajo is afraid after all he has defied court order

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